The story is about a distant but not so unrealistic future where mankind has abandoned Earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the corrupt and powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation.

WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerised with trinkets of Earth's history and show tunes, the robot is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach.

One day Eve, a sleek and dangerous reconnaissance robot is sent to Earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with her and rescues her from a dust storm showing her a living plant he found amongst the rubble. Moving on with her plan, Eve takes the plant and automatically enters a deactivated state except for a blinking green beacon.

WALL-E doesn't understand what has happened to his new friend, but true to his love, he protects her from wind, rain, and lightening, even as she is unresponsive. One day a large ship comes to reclaim Eve, but WALL-E, out of love or loneliness hitches a ride on the outside of the ship to rescue Eve. The ship arrives back as a large space cruise ship which is carrying all the humans who evacuated Earth 700 years earlier.

The people of earth ride around this space resort on hovering chairs which give them a constant feed of television and video chatting. They drink all of their meals through a straw out of laziness and are all so fat that they can barely move. When Buy N Large tries to prevent the people of Earth from returning by stealing the plant, the couple, the portly captain, and a band of broken robots stage a mutiny.

With so many genres from animated adventure to comedy science Disney fans maybe glued to their seats the first time round and even come back for more.